WHAT WE DO IS SECRET - Page 9

our profession is based on the notion of secrecy

The 2016 Burning Man festival is taking place this week in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, where New York-based creative director PieterJan Mattan has photographed his highlights from this year’s event.Read the rest of this article @ Dezeen »

California dreaming: Summitridge makes the most of LA’s temperate climate

Californian architects have long been blessed by an abundance of natural light and a dry temperate weather, which explains the airy expansiveness of so much of the state’s best architecture. And when a half-decent budget is thrown into the mix, the results can be both inspiring and aspirational.Read the rest of this article @ Wallpaper* »

The Tree Top Residence celebrates the site’s complex landscape, merging with it seamlessly and emerging from it atop the canopy of trees that surround it. Built along a natural ridgeline, the long and narrow plan of the three-story house mimics and inverts the angles of the site’s topography, creating dynamic vertical and horizontal relationships.Read the rest of this article @ Belzberg Architects »

Cherem Arquitectos has completed ‘Casa Candelaria’, a house located in Quanajuato, Central Mexico. sited on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende, the design uses 50 centimeter-thick (20 inch) rammed earth walls that allow the architecture to blend with the natural landscape. This choice of materiality ensures that the structure has a high thermal mass, retaining heat during hot days, before gradually discharging it throughout the cooler desert nights.Read the rest of this article @ designboom »

This latest project from Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects is in the form of a discreet modern home in Laguna Beach. With a 11-foot height limit imposed by the homeowner’s association, the house was built on a series of horizontal floating planes which are supported on stone masses, wood walls and slender steel columns.Read the rest of this article @ Hypebeast »

Divine simplicity: stone-clad Syros Island house is orientated to perfection

Located in the thick of the Cyclades, Syros ticks all the boxes of a Greek island – the gorgeous flat waters of the Aegean, postcard perfect tableaus of little towns that cling to slopes, bijou bays and a wild sparse interior that’s changed little since the days of Homer. And in a picturesque spot in Delphini, in Syros’s northwest, the Thessaloniki-based Katerina Tsigarida Architects have built a complex of low-slung residential villas for a London-based Greek family that has familial and business (textiles and shipping) ties with the island.Read the rest of this article @ Wallpaper* »

Designed by Grupo Urban, this two-storey house in the Argentinian city of Córdoba is surrounded by trees. Appropriately titled ‘Casa del Bosque’, the residence belongs to a family with a strong passion for art and design. The home’s footprint was partially determined by the site’s previously existing trees, many of which were spared rather than cut down. Not only is the vegetation visible from each room, but it also provides privacy — closing the house off from the street, and naturally enclosing the backyard.Read the rest of this article @ designboom »

Wooden walls can be folded back from the front of this house on Costa Rica’s coastline, opening up ocean views for the bedrooms and living spaces within. The Ocean Eye House was designed by San José-based architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe for a family that purchased a site on the western edge of the Nicoya peninsula, facing straight out towards the Pacific ocean.Read the rest of this article @ Dezeen »

Los Angeles-based architect Mario Romano recently debuted his newest project called The Wave House. With an affinity for natural landscapes, Romano designed the coastal abode in Venice, California to resemble a majestic ocean swell.Read the rest of this article @ Hypebeast »